Mother's Day 2015

This mothers day didn't go exactly how I planned.  Sometimes life is to busy to make good plans. Although I enjoyed the messages given a church.  One particularly stuck out to me.  It was talk about the generations of a few women in a family.  How they experienced hardships in there life some very difficult things but we're dedicated to there children/spouses/religion.  The talk went on to stress that we should be the best moms we know how with our talents and not compare our selves to others.  Today I was thinking about how blessed I am to be a stay at home mom.  I've been to my kids school five times this week, and that's not including regular dropping and picking up. I am
able to take them to doctor visits, field day, and lunches.  My talents aren't as physical or musical but most of the time I have unlimited patience.  I love teaching my children and talking them through things.  In my mind teaching opportunities are endless.  Our children are essentially blank pages needing instruction, guidance, love, understanding, structure, and patience.  I truly enjoy being a mother it's the most time consuming heart wrenching thing I've ever done.  I can honest say I love each one of my babies evenly.  They bring me so much joy.  I also think about my own mother and my childhood and how our relationship has grown.  My mom often lends an ear to issues, triumphs, and normal everyday things.  I appreciate her advice and expansive knowledge.  She is my favorite shopping partner whither it's clothes or decor.  It's brilliant how her mind works and I am constantly stunned by her interior decorating choices and vision.  Nobody can make yard glow like my mom well maybe her sister my aunt.  Those ladies have a green thumbs.  I love my mom very much and I am most thankful for the gift she gave me through my sister.  I can't leave out my mother in law, she has never turned down a babysitting job for us, and is so quick to help our family!  She loves her son and grand babies so much and goes above and beyond all the time!  I also have to mention how much I love my California mommy Steffer, my aunt.  She is always there for me and a quick phone call, email, or text message away.  She is so involved in my life and my kids lives.  I am thankful I've had so many female motherly figures in my life.

Cousin visit and a soccer game

My sister came into midland with her family Friday.  Her brother in law and sister in law were graduating from college and her father in law was in town. My nephew asked to spend the night with us.  We took the kids out for ice cream and to play at the park.  Richard left later to take Allison to her competitive soccer practice. Cooper was ecstatic to have his cousin Zachary over, they stayed up late.  Richard woke up early the next day to get donuts!  Later that afternoon Allison had a soccer game.  It was a hot game!!  Allison played so hard scoring three goals!  We lost 4-5, we should have won that game.  It was a hard loss, but after the game we took the kids to Bahama Bucks.  My nephew left back to San Angelo around 5pm.  The kids were sad to see him go but we are planning on him staying with us for a few days this summer. 

31 weeks and counting

I had my sonogram on Friday!  Richard was off and Beckett was with us.  It is so fun to see how baby is doing and growing.  He has such a personality already.  Baby is head down but had his feet close to his head playing with his toes.  Which is why we didn't get a good picture of him because his feet and hands were in his face.  Everything is measuring on time, and all body parts look healthy.  The most interesting thing about the sonogram was he had hair!  We've never seen hair in a sonogram before, it will be fun to see how much hair he actually has.  My regular appointment was normal good blood pressure, and I only gained two pounds.  My next appointment is in two weeks.  I feel like I have still so long to go.  I just want to reach June and then I'll feel like I am making progress.  I still have good energy levels, still walking everyday, and still feeling plenty of movement.  This month is so busy which I think it will go by fast.  I am getting nervous about all the projects I still need to finish but hopefully I'll find time to get them done.     

She's 10!!!!!

 

 

 

 Our sweet daughter is official in the double digits.  It truly blows my mind we've been parents for a decade.  It seems like yesterday we found out we were expecting a daughter.  I remember her birth very clearly, feeling as if I had been hit by a car.  But being absolutely head over heels in love with our newborn.  Dressing her tiny body and caring for her every need.  Those first few months were some of my favorite memories.  Days, months, and years have passed.  Bringing lots of changes to our family.  Your first born brings you all your first as parents.  We were definitely blessed with an easy newborn, a extreme tolerant toddler, and determined preschooler.  Not to say we haven't faced challenges but they've been manageable.  Allison's determined mindset has made learn achievements reachable.  Her loving and caring attitude has been such a blessing to me in the mist of my other two rowdy sons.  Allison is helpful, she sees a need and no questions asked she is filling that need.  Discipline is a breeze she is so quick to ask for forgiveness.  I have most loved watching her love for soccer and watching heart talent increase.  There is no sport that child can't play well!  Her athletic personality surprised me I guess because it's unlike me.  She has a love for outdoors and animals that is so tender.  Allison definitely has her own personality when it comes to her clothes, hair, and her style.  I love our alone time together and cherish every moment of it, I try to make it happen often.  Happy birthday to my Alli-cat your dad and I love you very much.

Birthday party

Allison's big party!!  I had invited 20 of her girlfriends and only had 6 rsvp, 18 showed!  It was a huge turn out, my house was full of girls!  We quickly took the party outside!  Allison and I came up with this crazy party idea for a color party!  Allison saw a color run and wanted to recreate it for her party.  I found on Pinterest how to make the color powder cornstarch, water, and gel food coloring.  We made three colors and had to let them dry for three days.  We played a ton of games like freeze tag and decorated bandanas at the party.  Later the girls just went crazy hitting each other, I wish I caught a picture of how colorful everyone was!  We also made lava lamps in glass jars.  Between Richard and I and 18 girls it was a little crazy but super fun to make.  I also made several dozen confetti eggs and we play a few games with those.  Then the girls had a free for all throwing them at everybody.  After all the games we ate pizza and snow cones.  The snow cones were a hit I think we made over 60!  It was such a huge success, I have never slept so good this pregnancy that night.

 

Double Header

Saturday was a full day!  We had two soccer games and we hosted Allison's bday party at our house.  It was perfect weather for a soccer game sun out slight wind.  First game was interesting.  We had a few girls get hurt one hit squat in the face with the ball!  A bunch of bad calls by the referee, throwing Allison's goal out.  We lost but the girls played so hard.  We grabbed lunch quickly and stopped by the house.  Beckett I guess was tired climbed in his bed and went to sleep.  My in laws stopped by to drop off the cooler and decided to stay and watch Beckett so I could go to the game.  Cooper also decided to stay.  Allison loved the attention, and I loved being able to watch a full game uninterrupted.  We played the hardest team in our league, we kept up with them pretty good.  We lost 1-5, Allison scored. 

Friday Adventures

My mom and step dad came into Midland for a quick doctors appointment.  After there appointment my step dad dropped my mom off and he went to visit his sister.  My mom bought Allison a new bedding set for her birthday.  Allison has been wanting to redo her room for about a year now. My mom and I got a wild hair and started rearranging her room and setting up her new bedding.  My mom who had just gotten Cortizone shoots in her ankles and me nearly 8 months pregnant moving furniture!  Mr Beckett steered clear from us girls but came to check on us a few times.  It was nice to get a few hours pretty much by myself with my mom!  I wish she could have stayed longer but they were back on the road by 3.  Later that night we took the kids to the drive in to see the new Advengers movie.  We brought food, drinks, chairs, blankets, and the radio.  The boys didn't even make it ten minutes into the movie.  They both migrated back into the car and sandwich themselves in between me and feel asleep.  Talk about an uncomfortable pregnant mama!